On May 7, 2012, at 2:23 AM, Jenna Fox wrote:

> Things:
> 1) It'd be super cool if the user types in their email address as the 
> username if it still works

Yes this should be easy to do  - could put both I think email or username

> 2) I wonder what I'm doing wrong? I enter in bluebie/whywentcamping.com in 
> the github repo name and it says my url contains invalid characters?
> 

I think the check in the script doesn't allow a repository to have a points 
inside it ..is it very common ? Can fix this but if you want to try in the 
interim just use any repo without a . on it :)
Thanks again for testing this out
David


> —
> Jenna
> 
> On Sunday, 6 May 2012 at 10:41 AM, gurugeek wrote:
> 
>> Hello Campers!
>> I am happy to announce that the camping 1 click deployment is now available 
>> at http://1.ai
>> The platform has been coded with camping (with some help from bash for the 
>> backend scripts) and it seems to work very well. 
>> 
>> We have spent some time to get sure that it would be secure and easy to use. 
>> After working on an easy and secure way to upload/manage files online etc. 
>> we have found an easier solution: fetch a github repository with a camping 
>> application and - with one click -deploy it online at yourname.1.ai
>> 
>> So how does this works ?
>> 1 - you signup 
>> 2 - after logging in you simply fetch your camping application from a github 
>> repository there is a sample hello world available at 
>> https://github.com/gurugeek/0ai and this is also explained in the app admin 
>> page
>> 3 - after fetching (provided that this is a valid camping app and has a 
>> valid config.ru file) your application will be live.
>> 
>> The admin panel has all these instructions and if you try to fetch a 
>> non-camping application from a github repository it will return the relevant 
>> error. 
>> 
>> The system supports private repositories too (this said I wouldn't run 
>> something very secret and private on it!) but you would need to authorise 
>> the github user 1ai to access your private repository.
>> 
>> Github has a lot of wonderful features so I feel that this was the best 
>> solution without re-inventing the wheel. It is probably the fastest and 
>> easiest way to get your camping application up and running. 
>> 
>> Each application is securely isolated but all this is running in a 
>> traditional dedicated server (no virtual/cloud/droids) are employed. This 
>> should enhance the application performance. The server is also using only 
>> SSD (solid state drivers) that are not yet available in most of cloud 
>> providers (EC2, Rackspace cloud). 
>> 
>> I really appreciate your testing and comments so please go on and launch 
>> your shiny Camping app at
>> http://1.ai  !
>> 
>> A small caveat: The aim of this service is (hopefully) to promote camping 
>> (perhaps next with a programming contest with some cool prizes) but it is 
>> obviously not meant to replace a traditional hosting in the sense that there 
>> will be no tech support offered and the service is provided without any 
>> warranty. This doesn't mean that is not good enough to run any of your fancy 
>> Camping apps - just that you should not expect this to replace any 
>> professional hosting. 
>> 
>> Note on Databases:
>> -If you have an sqlite database in your github repository it should work 
>> just fine. If it works for you locally it should work fine on http://1.ai 
>> after the github fetch
>> -If you want to use CouchDB you can do it with the wonderful Chill 
>> (https://github.com/Bluebie/chill) and http://www.iriscouch.com/ (which is 
>> free for small apps/usage). Once you have your CouchDB on iriscouch you 
>> simply connect to it from your camping app, fetch the data etc. 
>> 
>> 
>> I do look forward to your comments and welcome any question you might have!
>> Best Regards
>> David
>> 
>> 
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